Seattle man named bike messenger world champion

Seattle is home to the best bike messenger in the world. At least, that’s what judges at a world-wide competition determined.

Craig Etheridge, who’s been zipping around Seattle’s streets since 2003, won the 2010 Bike Messenger World Championship in Guatemala. He said the win was a bit of a surprise: Roads there are busy, confusing and a whole lot bumpier than in Seattle.

Seattlepi.com’s partner KOMO TV was skeptical of Etheridge’s ability to beat traffic while delivering packages and documents around the city. A TV crew devised a challenge for him: Beat the news van back to KOMO headquarters.

I won’t tell you how the race turned out; let’s just say it ended with a slice of humble pie.